- 1970 - High temperatures over the past ten days ranged between 30-34 degrees, about eight degrees colder than average.
- 1972 - Today was the 19th day in December with precipitation (0.36" fell), the most for any month in the 1962-2012 period (later equalled in May 1973). Temperatures rose throughout the day and when the ball dropped in Times Square it was a very mild 59 degrees.
- 1980 - It was a frosty end to the year, with a high of 27/low of 14. The morning low was the coldest for the date since 1962's +4.
- 1983 - It was reported today that the year's extraordinary, and record-setting, rainfall total of 80.76" was most likely the result of a malfunctioning rain gauge in Central Park.
- 1987 - After a very cold morning low of 15 degrees the temperature rose to 40 by midnight.
1989 - This was the only day of this very cold month in which temperatures went above average (high of 53/low of 31). It was also the wettest New Year's Eve since 1948 as 0.52" fell - the only significant rainfall of a bone dry month in which just 0.31" was measured before today. (Going into December it appeared that 1989 would go down as the wettest year on record as only 2.76" was needed to pass 1972's total of 67.03", but it was not to be.)
- 1992 - The temperature rose to a very mild 61, one degree warmer than last year, and the mildest reading on the last day of the year since 1965's record of 63.
- 1993 - It was a very cold end to the year as the past six days averaged 11 degrees below average (high of 27/low of 16). This frigid trend would continue into January.
1996 - A cold front moved through during the afternoon and by midnight the temperature had plummeted to 15 with a wind chill near zero.
- 1998 - Today's high/low of 25/17 made this the coldest day of the month. The past three years have also had very cold morning lows on this date: 17, 17 and 15.
2001 - Whereas 1989's bitter cold December ended on a mild note, this December, which was the mildest on record, ended cold (high 31/low 20). It would also be one of the coldest days of the mild winter of 2001-02. Five of the past six New Year's Eves had temperatures well below average (the exception being 1999's high/low of 43/34).
- 2003 - The last ten days of the year were close to 10 degrees milder than average (high 51/low 38).
- 2006 - The year ended with twenty-one days in a row with above average temperatures, which averaged 12 degrees milder than normal. During these days there was no temperature of freezing or colder reported.
- 2008 - This morning's low of 18 was the coldest on this date in ten years.
2009 - 1.5" of snow fell, the first snowfall on New Year's Eve since 1967 when three inches fell. 2009 was the 7th year in a row with more than 50 inches of precipitation. The average over these years was 56.40", seven inches above average. This December's total precip of 7.27" surpassed the previous December's 6.62", making it the wettest since 1973.
- 2011 - The year ended on a mid note with a high of 54/low of 46, the tenth day of the month in which temperatures were ten degrees or more above average. Today was sixteen degrees above the norm. The month ended up being the 4th mildest December on record (the two mildest were in 2001 and 2006). It was also the ninth month in a row with above-average temperatures.
- 2012 - The morning low of 28 degrees was the coldest reading of the month (it also occurred on 12/30 and 12/26). In the past 40 years no December had a minimum temperature this mild (the previous record was 26 degrees in 1974). The typical minimum temperature in December is 16 degrees.
